Hueyacocotla

Hueyacocotla, its Nahuatl name meaning place of the great pine, was a Huastec, or Teenek, town in the pine highlands of the Huasteca Baja, on the Veracruz-Hidalgo frontier. The Huastecs were a Mayan-speaking people long cut off from the other Maya, and around 1450 their towns were subdued by Moctezuma I's Aztec armies and left to rule themselves under tribute.